[Wolves] Ubuntu Forums "There has been a security breach" ??

[Chris Ellis]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Andy D'Arcy Jewell <andy at wild-flower.co.uk
> wrote:

> Looks like they didn't employ Mr Morley's testing skillz to the forum...
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/**announce.html<http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html>
>

Unfortunately 'salted hashes' provide minimal protection to modern brute
forcing, using fast hash algorithms to store passwords is weak.
Lets hope they move to BCrypt if they weren't already using it.


>
> (Not that he hasn't got enough to do, like).
>
> -Andy DJ
>

Chris
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